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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The first known U.S. case of a highly infectious variant of the coronavirus was detected in Colorado, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said Tuesday (December 29). Polis announced on Twitter that his state had discovered a case of a highly infectious B117 variant of coronavirus first detected in the …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: U.S. Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris received her COVID-19 vaccine live on television on Tuesday (Dec. 29) and urged public opinion to trust the process, while her choice of hospital highlighted the difficult situation of the African American community. Harris, wearing a mask, received the first of his two …

[ad_1] South China morning post China’s P2P purge leaves millions of victims in the cold, with losses in the billions, as concerns about social unrest mount. Karen Kong hasn’t had a good night’s sleep in the past half year, after learning that her mother invested all of the family’s savings, …

[ad_1] JAKARTA: Indonesia is prepared to secure coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer and AstraZeneca, the Minister of Health said on Tuesday (December 29), while awaiting authorization to begin its inoculation program with a third drug, by Sinovac of China. Budi Gunadi Sadikin said a 50 million dose deal with AstraZeneca would …

[ad_1] JAKARTA: Indonesia is prepared to secure coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer and AstraZeneca, the Minister of Health said on Tuesday (December 29), while awaiting authorization to begin its inoculation program with a third drug, by Sinovac of China. Budi Gunadi Sadikin said a 50 million dose deal with AstraZeneca would …

[ad_1] Tue, December 29, 2020 – 5:52 pm The Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) has highlighted value investing as a significant contributing factor to the recent rally in the Straits Times Index (STI) in the quarter to date, noting that four of the STI’s top 10 results for the period were …

[ad_1] MANILA: The Philippines will ban travelers from 19 countries and territories until mid-January as a measure to prevent a new variant of the coronavirus, its Ministry of Transportation said on Tuesday (December 29). The regulation will take effect from midnight December 29 to January 15 and covers Filipinos and …

[ad_1] BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – The scale of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan earlier this year may have been nearly 10 times greater than the recorded count, a study by China’s public health authorities indicates, leaving the city where the coronavirus first seized still very short. of the immunity required to …

[ad_1] NEW YORK: This year was like no other for oil prices. Even when world prices end the year at around $ 51 a barrel, close to the 2015-2017 average, it masks a year of volatility. In April, US crude plunged deep into negative territory and Brent fell below $ …

[ad_1] MUMBAI (BLOOMBERG) – Mukesh Ambani spent much of 2020 convincing Facebook, Google and a handful of Wall Street heavyweights to buy into his vision of one of the world’s most ambitious corporate transformations. Now with $ 27 billion (Singapore $ 35.9 billion) in fresh capital, Asia’s richest man is …